“That over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies, and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like some slumberers in their beds; the ever rolling waves but made so by the restlessness.” 

― Herman Melville Moby Dick, or The Whale

millions of mixed shades and shadows

a double collage dye bonded on aluminum-

background: photographs cut from the textbook, Discovering Black America
foreground: Selfies taken to record the metadata of my surfing journey and water adjacency
(in deference to Yemaya the Yoruban Mother of the Earth whose water broke when giving birth to her
and thus formed all the oceans, rivers and lakes on the planet).

91st Community Garden Rockaway Beach, New York
May 2024